FIRST LOOK: Aerial video where Austin bombing suspect met police; home in Pflugerville

Suspect blew himself up in confrontation with police early Wednesday

SAN ANTONIO - The serial bomber who engaged in a three-week reign of terror in Austin, killing two people and injuring five others, is dead after blowing himself up during a confrontation with authorities, police said.

The suspect, identified as either 23- or 24-year-old Mark Anthony Conditt, of Pflugerville, died early Wednesday morning after police tracked him down and closed in on him at a hotel in Round Rock off Interstate 35.